Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan

Nahua and Maya Catholicisms examines ecclesiastical texts written in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya to illustrate the role of these texts in conveying and reflecting various Catholic messages--and thus Catholicisms--throughout colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan. It demonstrates how published and unpublished sermons, confessional manuals, catechisms, and other religious texts betray official and unofficial versions of Catholicism, and how these versions changed throughout the colonial period according to indigenous culture, local situations, and broader early modern events. The book's study of these texts also allows for a better appreciation of the negotiations that occurred during the evangelization process between native and Spanish cultures, the center and periphery, and between official expectations and everyday realities. And by employing both Nahuatl and Maya religious texts, Nahua and Maya Catholicism allows for a uniquely comparative study that expands beyond Central Mexico to include Yucatan.

Author: Mark Christensen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/24/2013
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780804785280

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2013

About the Author
Mark Z. Christensen is Assistant Professor of History at Assumption College.

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